art tracks: museums & the web 2015
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Art TracksCarnegie Museum of ArtMuseums & the Web 2015April 10th, 2014
The Art Tracks Team:
David NewburyLead Developer
Tracey Berg-FultonProvenance Researcher
Travis SnyderCollections Database Administrator
What is Art Tracks?
An Institute of Museum and Library Servicesfunded project to digitize and visualizeprovenance information.
Durand-Ruel, Paris, August 23, 1872 [1];Catholina Lambert, New Jersey;Lambert sale, American Art Association, Plaza Hotel, New York, NY, February 21, 1916 until February 24, 1916, no. 67; Durand-Ruel, Paris, until at least 1930; purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, by June 1936 [2]; anonymous sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., February 25, 1970, no. 19 [3]; Sam Salz, Inc., New York, NY; purchased by Museum, May 1971.
NOTES: [1] bought from the artist. [2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945" (no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer). [3] "Highly Important Impressionist, Post-Impressionist & Modern Paintings and Drawings", illustrated.
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
Acquisition Methods:
—"purchased by"—"gift of"—"by descent to"
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
Location:
Building, City, State, Country
—New York, NY—France—Highclere Castle, West Berkshire, England
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
Party:
Name, life dates, titles, relationships
—Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. [1909-1988]—Michel Monet, his son—Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
Dates:
Period of ownership
—January 1, 1995—until the 15th century—sometime between 1885 and 1895 until May 1950
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
ConstraintsNot CMOA specificSingle source of truth
Useful for humans & computers
Graceful Failure
Single Source of Truth.
Develop for people,not computers.
How are yougoing to fail?
What should truth look like?
JSON?CIDOC-CRM Linked Open Data?Unstructured text blobs?
Unstructured Text Blobs.
Human readable
Will need to be supported indefinitely
Current state of Collection Management Systems
CMOA provenance standard
Formalization of AAM standardSame structure, just stricter
Designed for bothhuman and machinereadability
Draft document available
Leverage the Community.
Location: Geonames
Party: Internal CMS, ULAN, VIAF
Acquisition Methods:
Dates.I hate Pope Gregory.
Footnotes:
Additional descriptive information
—Durand Ruel stock no. D1343—See curatorial file for more information—Her birth name was Ellen Mary Cassatt
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
museum_provenance library
https://github.com/cmoa/museum_provenance
MIT License, standalone Ruby library. v. 0.1.1
ElysaA UI tool for museum professionals.
TODO: open source this.
Storytime
Next Steps:
EDTF Support.
LOD for entity disambiguationBibliography support
Make Elysa deployable at other institutions
Start working with multi-museum collections
Thank you, M&tW. — The Art Tracks team.